It is worth emphasizing that the "Jewish state" was founded on the basis of an ancient
Biblical map, and to this date the "Jewish state" still refuses to declare its borders in favor of future expansion. There is nothing
like this Biblical map to send shivers among Arabs and Muslims, since its
borders spans the occupied West Bank (including occupied East Jerusalem), occupied Gaza Strip, southern Lebanon,
the western parts of Jordan, and southern Syria including the occupied Golan
Heights.

This deep fear was the prime motive behind the Palestinian and Arab rejection
of the U.N. GA proposed partition plan in 1947.

Famous Quotes

As WWI was ending, Ben-Gurion
went on to draw a map of the "Jewish
state" to be. This map clearly excluded Damascus (although
it was part of Biblical "Eretz Yisrael"), and limited the "Jewish
state's" future
northern
borders to 20 km south of the Syrian Capital. He rationalized this decision as
follows:

"It is unthinkable that the Jewish state, in our day and
age, could include the city of Damascus. . . . This is a large Arab city, and
one of the four centers of Islam. The Jewish community there is small. The
Arabs will never allow Damascus, their pride, to come under Jewish control, and
there can be no doubt that the English, even were it in their power, would
agree to such a thing." (Shabtai
Teveth, p.
34)

If these are all sound reasons to exclude Damascus from being under
Jewish control, then what makes Zionists think that occupied Jerusalem is
any different? Although Damascus
was never occupied by the Christian Crusaders, Jerusalem was occupied and pillaged,
and to liberate it almost a million Muslim and Arab were martyred! Palestinians, Arabs, and
Muslims often wonder where
the Zionist Jews were when their "Promised Land" needed them during
the Crusaders' genocide!

From the beginning, Zionists advocated a "Jewish State" not just in
Palestine, but also in Jordan, southern Lebanon, and the Golan Heights as well. In 1918 Ben-Gurion
described the future
"Jewish state's" frontiers in details as follows:

"to the north, the Litani river [in southern Lebanon], to the
northeast, the Wadi 'Owja, twenty miles south of Damascus; the southern border
will be mobile and pushed into Sinai at least up to Wadi al-'Arish; and to the
east, the Syrian Desert, including the furthest edge of Transjordan" (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p. 87)
Click here to view the "Greater Israel"
map that was submitted by the Zionists to the peace conference after WWI.

In the mid-1930s, Ben-Gurion met George Antonius (an advisor to
al-Mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, who was one of the
few Palestinians whom Ben-Gurion had contacts with), and suggested that Palestinians should help
the Zionists to expand the borders of their future "Jewish
state" to include areas under French control, such as southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights.
In response, Mr.
Antonius burst laughing and answered:

According to Ben-Gurion, Antonius had complained about
Zionists who "want to bring to Palestine the largest number of Jews
possible, without taking [the Palestinian] Arabs into consideration at all. With
this type," said Antonius, "it is impossible to come to an understanding.
They want a 100% Jewish state, and the [Palestinian] Arabs will remain in their
shadow." By the end of their talk, Antonius could, with reason, conclude
that Ben-Gurion belonged precisely to this category of Zionists. (Shabtai
Teveth, p. 163)

According to Ben-Gurion, Palestine was a "matter of life
and death" for the Jews. "Even pogroms in Germany or Poland, and in
Palestine, we prefer the pogroms here." (Shabtai
Teveth, p. 163)

On July 29, 1937,
Ben-Gurion stated to the World Convention of Ihud Po'alei
Tzion in Zurich that Maronite ruled Lebanon would serve the Christian minority
better if it allied itself with the future "Jewish state." He said:

"Having Lebanon as a neighbor ensures the Jewish state of a faithful ally
from the first day of its establishment. It is not, also, unavoidable that
across the northern side of the Jewish state border in southern Lebanon the
first possibility of our expansion will come up through agreement, in good
will, with our neighbors who need us." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p.
88)

Ben-Gurion was enchanted that Jerusalem's neighboring Palestinian communities
had been emptied. He stated to the Mapai Council on February 8, 1948:

"From your entry into Jerusalem, through Lifta,
Romema [East Jerusalem Palestinian neighborhood]. . . there are no
[Palestinian] Arab. One hundred percent Jews. Since Jerusalem was destroyed by
the Romans, it has not been Jewish as it is now. In many [Palestinian] Arab neighborhoods
in the west one sees not a single [Palestinian] Arab. I do not assume that
this will change. . . . What had happened in Jerusalem. . . . is likely
to happen in many parts of the country. . . in the six, eight, or ten
months of the campaign there will certainly be great changes in the
composition of the population in the country." (Expulsion
Of The Palestinians, p. 180-181)

Ben-Gurion "had a dream" to annex southern Lebanon to the "Jewish
state", and to establish a Christian state north of the Litani
River. At the beginning of the 1948 war, he stated:

'The Muslims rule of Lebanon is artificial and easily undermined. A Christian
state ought to be set up whose southern borders would be Litani River. Then
we'll form an alliance with it." In the coming years he
repeated this idea, and according to Moshe
Sharett, Moshe Dayan
(who was Israeli's chief of staff in the early 1950s) responded favorably to
this idea and who according to Sharett said: "In his [Dayan] view, all we
need to do is to find a Christian Lebanese officer, perhaps no higher than a
captain, and win him over or buy him with money, so that he would declare
himself the savior of Maronite population. Then the Israel army would enter
Lebanon, occupy the territory in question and establish a Christian government
which would form an alliance with Israel." Sharett himself considered
this an "awful" idea. (1949,
The First Israelis,
p. 10 & Righteous Victims, p.
497)

What's ironic that this "awful" idea was precisely executed
thirty later by Manahem Bagin and
Ariel Sharon during the Israeli invasion and
occupation of Lebanon between 1982-2000.

"We Shall spread in the whole country in the course of time .....
this is only an arrangement for the next 25 to 30 years."(Expulsion
Of The Palestinians, p. 62)

In 1938,
Ben-Gurion made it clear of his support for the establishment of a
Jewish state on parts of Palestine ONLY as an intermediary stage, he wrote:

"[I am] satisfied with part of the country, but on the basis of the
assumption that after we build up a strong force following the establishment of
the state--we will abolish the partition of the country and we will expand to
the whole Land of Israel." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians, p.
107, One Palestine Complete,
p. 403)

Ben-Gurion emphasized that the acceptance of the Peel Commission
would not imply static borders for the future "Jewish state". In a letter Ben-Gurion sent to his son in
1937, he wrote:

"No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewish
state in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning ..... Our possession
is important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power,
and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in its
entirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever in
our historical effort to redeem the whole country." (Righteous Victims,
p. 138)

In August 1937, the 20th Zionist Congress rejected the Peel
Commission proposed partition plan because the area allotted to the
"Jewish state" was smaller than expected. On the other hand, the concept of partitioning
Palestine into two states was accepted as a launching pad for future Zionist expansions,
and to secure unlimited Jewish immigrations. In September 1938, Ben-Gurion
explained why he advocated partitioning the country NOW, and to accept the Peel
Commission's proposal:

"The ONLY reason that we agreed to discuss the [Peel
commission proposed] partition plan," Ben-Gurion wrote Moshe Sharett,
"is mass immigration. Not in the future, and not according to abstract formula,
but large immigration now." (Shabtai
Teveth, p. 184)

And in October 1938, he wrote to his children that :

"I don't regard a state in part of Palestine as the final
aim of Zionism, but as a mean toward that aim." (Shabtai
Teveth, p. 188)

In September 1937, he stated to a group of American Jewish labor
leaders in New York:

"the borders [of the Jewish state] will not be fixed for
eternity." (Shabtai
Teveth, p. 188)

On July 30, 1937 Yosef Bankover, a founding member and leader of Kibbutz Hameuhad movement
and a member of Haganah's regional command of the coastal and central
districts, stated that
Ben-Gurion would accept the proposed Peel Commission
partition plan under two conditions: 1) unlimited Jewish immigration 2)
Compulsory population transfer for Palestinians. He stated that :

"Ben-Gurion said yesterday that he was prepared to accept the [Peel
partition] proposal of the Royal commission but on two conditions: [Jewish]
sovereignty and compulsory transfer ..... As for the compulsory transfer-- as a
member of Kibbutz Ramat Hakovsh [founded in 1932 in central Palestine] I would
be very pleased if it would be possible to be rid of the pleasant neighborliness
of the people of Miski, Tirah, and Qalqilyah." (Expulsion Of The Palestinians,
p. 70)

Similarly, he also stated to his son Amos in October 1937 that
a "Jewish state" in part of Palestine was:

"not the end, but only the beginning." Its
establishment would give a "powerful boost to our historic efforts to
redeem the country in its entirety." For the "Jewish state"
would have "outstanding army-- I have no doubt that our army will be
among the world's outstanding--and so I am certain that we won't be
constrained from settling in the rest of the country, either by mutual
agreement and understanding with our Arab neighbors, or by some other way. . .
. . I still believe . . . . that after we become numerous and strong, the
Arabs will understand that it is best for them to strike an alliance with us,
and to benefit from our help, providing they allow us by their good will to
settle in all parts of Palestine." (Shabtai
Teveth, p. 188)

Regarding settling the Negev desert, which was allotted to the
Palestinian state according to the Peel Commission,
Ben-Gurion stated:

"It is very possible that in exchange for our financial,
military, organizational and scientific assistance, the [Palestinian] Arabs
will agree that we develop and build the Negev [which as of 2002, the Negev is
still mostly populated by Palestinian-Israeli citizens]. It is also possible
that they won't agree. No people always behaves according to logic, common
sense, and best interests." If the Palestinian Arabs "act according
to sterile nationalist emotion," and reject the idea of Jewish
settlement, preferring that the Negev remain barren, then the Jewish army would act. "Because we cannot stand
to see large areas of unsettled land capable of absorbing thousands of Jews
remain empty, or to see Jews not return to their country because the
[Palestinian] Arabs say that there is not enough room for them and us." (Shabtai
Teveth, p. 188-189) It is worth noting that the Negev is still a barren
desert, and under populated by Israeli Jews.

During a lecture in Tel-Aviv in front of Mapai activists in
1938, Ben-Gurion divided the realization of the "historic aim of the
Jewish state" into two stages. The first stage, which would last
ten to fifteen years, he called "the period of building and laying
foundations." This would prepare the state for the second stage,
"the period of expansion." The goal of both stages was the
"gathering of the exiles in all of Palestine." And so "from the
moment the state is established, it must calculate its actions with an eye
toward this distant goal."

When Zionists were debating the Peel Commission's partition plan,
Ben-Gurion advised his colleges to accept the concept of
partitioning ONLY as a first stage of a complete conquest. He stated in 1937:

"Just as I do not see the proposed Jewish state as a
final solution to the problems of the Jewish people, so I do now see
partition as the final solution of the Palestine question. Those who
reject partition are right in their claim that this country cannot be
partitioned because it constitute one unit, not only from a historical point
of view but also from that of nature and economy" (emphasis added). (Simha
Flapan, p. 22)

and while addressing the Zionist executive, he again emphasized
the tactical nature of his support for partition and his assumption that:

"after the formation of a large army in the wake of the
establishment of the [Jewish] state, we shall abolish partition and expand to
the whole of the Palestine" (emphasis added). (Simha
Flapan, p. 22)

Similarly he also stated:

"The acceptance of partition does not commit us to
renounce Transjordan. One does not demand from anybody to give up his vision.
We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today--but the boundaries of
the Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external
factor will be able to limit them." By 1949 Ben-Gurion had proved that he
was as good as his word. (Simha
Flapan, p. 52-53)

Soon after the Biltmore conference in New York in May 1942,
Ben-Gurion reiterated his commitment for a "Jewish state" in all of
historic Palestine, he explained in a meeting of Histadrut Counsel:

"this is why we formulated our demand not as a Jewish
state in Palestine but Palestine as a Jewish state" (emphasis add),
and he advised "not to identify the Biltmore Program with a Jewish state
in part of Palestine." (Simha
Flapan, p. 23-24)

Ben-Gurion wrote in his dairy on November 30,
1947 after the UN vote to
partition Palestine into two states:

"In my heart, there was joy mixed with sadness: joy that the nations
at last acknowledged that we are a nation with a state, and SADNESS that we
LOST half of the country, Judea and Samaria, and , in addition, that we
[would] have [in our state] 400,000 Arabs." (Righteous
Victims, p. 190)

Soon after the U.N. Proposed Partitioning Palestinian in
November 1947,
Ben-Gurion urged his party to accept the partition because it
will never be final,

"not with regard to the regime, not with regard to
borders, and not with regard to international agreements." (Simha
Flapan, p. 32)

Similarly, even most
left wing parties reaffirmed their commitment to the complete redemption of Biblical
"Eretz Yisrael," the United Hebrew Labor (Ahdut Haavodah) stated:

"partition is the best or shortest way of realizing
greater Zionism" and declared that its members would "not cease to
strive for the integrity of the homeland." (Simha
Flapan, p. 33)

When Pinhas Rozen, who became Israel's first Israeli Justice, demanded that
Israel's Declaration of Independence should cite the COUNTRY'S BORDERS,
Ben-Gurion objected, and both exchanged the following points:

ROZEN: "There's the question of the borders, and it CANNOT BE
IGNORED."
BEN-GURION: "Anything is possible. If we decide here that there's to be
no mention of borders, then we won't mention them. Nothing is a priori
[imperative]."
ROZEN: "It's not a priori, but it is a legal issue."
BEN-GURION: "The law is whatever people determine it to be." (1949,
The First Israelis,
p. xviii)

Ben-Gurion clearly never believed in static borders, but dynamic ones as
described in the Bible. He stated during a discussion with his aides:

"Before the founding of the state, on the eve of its creation, our
main interests was self-defense. To a large extent, the creation of the
state was an act of self-defense. . . . Many think that we're still at
the same stage. But now the issue at hand is conquest, not self-defense. As
for setting the borders--- it's an open-ended matter. In the Bible as well as
in our history, there all kinds of definitions of the country's borders, so
there's no real limit. Bo border is absolute. If it's a desert--- it could
just as well be the other side. If it's sea, it could also be across the sea.
The world has always been this way. Only the terms have changed. If they
should find a way of reaching other stars, well then, perhaps the whole earth
will no longer suffice." (1949,
The First Israelis,
p. 6)

It has been customary among all Zionists leaders to use the Bible to
justify perpetrating WAR CRIMES.
Regardless of the methods used to build the "Jewish state", the quote above is a classical example how the Bible is
used to achieve political
objectives.

During the course of the 1948 war, Yigal Allon submitted a
detailed plan to Ben-Gurion for the military conquest of the West Bank, arguing
that the Jordan River would provide the best strategic border. He believed that
a substantial part of the Palestinian population would flee east because of the
military operations, he stated:

"Our offensive has to leave the way open for the army and
the refugees to retreat. We shall easily find the reason or, to be more
accurate, the pretexts, to justify our offensive, as we did up to now"
(emphasis added). (Simha Flapan, p. 114)

When Israel signed the armistice agreements with Egypt, Jordan, Syria,
and Lebanon, Ben-Gurion stated:

"The November 29[, 1947 U.N.] decision had given the
Jewish state 14,920,000 dunums; now we have 20,662,000 dunums in our control.
While the UN has not yet recognized our borders, Egypt, Transjordan, Syria,
and Lebanon have done so." (Simha
Flapan, p. 49)

In other words, Israel managed to expand its borders 38% more
than the area allotted to the "Jewish state" by 1947 UN GA partition
plan. It should be noted that 60% of the Israelis soldiers were killed in
action, were killed in offensive actions in the areas conquered beyond areas allotted
by the UN to the "Jewish state." (Simha
Flapan,
p. 198-199)

One day after the U.N. vote to partition Palestine, Menachem
Begin, the commander of the Irgun and Israel's future Prime Minster between
1977-1983, proclaimed:

"The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be
recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel
will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever." (Iron
Wall p. 25)

Yigal Allon wrote in
an article published just before the outbreak of the 1967 war:

"In. . .a new war, we must avoid the historic mistake of the War of
Independence [the 1948 war]. . . and MUST NOT cease fighting until we achieve
total victory, the territorial fulfillment of the Land Of Israel." (Righteous
Victims, p. 321)

Einstein said:
"The most important aspect of our policy must be our ever-present, manifest desire to institute complete equality for the Arab citizens living in our midst ... The attitude we adopt toward the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people."

To those confused about whether Holy God promised a homeland to the Jews is misnomer and incorrect. Holy God chose the Jews, blessed the Jews, freed the Jews... but made a covenant with the Jews. Be as a people of EXILE through out the land -you don't get a homeland. Many Jews in the world live that way currently. The zionists scoff at that. They deny that covenant. They've broken that covenant basically. Right? Correct? And you see this today when you see "Jews" in Palestine using heavily armed military onto unarmed civilian and taking from the poor everything. The house, fire guns at or around the family, burn and bulldoze tilled field of farmers, bulldoze livestock and ancient olive groves bulldozed by (tank escorted) armored machines. Or bomb, rocket and shell 40 or 50 small villages full of unarmed civilians in Lebanon when Lebanon did not deserve this from a border skirmish between two patrols . Does a humble people of Gods chosen behave like that? You don't take from the poor, shoot and kill pregnant mothers for their land if you are associated with the Holy God of Abraham, his holy word and his sacred covenant. Not enough people speak openly and outwardly about the terrible crimes israel commits to this day after 65yrs of terrorism and currently in violations of over 67 u.n violations etc. & 9/11 arguably. This is goodly and biblical? I swear, anybody who thinks this is ok (what israel does, and does to lowly, poor and unarmed civilians), is not reading the same scripture billions of others read IN ANY OF THE THREE BOOKS OF GOD of Abraham, Qur-an, Bible or Torah.

Why is the content of the Torah so weird? All my life, I've never heard of any Holy Books mention that God grants a particular race land. What makes you so special that God wants to give your race other people's land? What kind of a God is that? I suspect your rabbis have changed the content of the Torah. To the Christians and Muslims, God is just and He makes sure there's 'equality' in all human races. Your race does not make you superior than other races but it is your piety that makes you superior in the eyes of God.

Posted by Ileana Stan on February 6, 2009:
"As a Romanian Jew I agree with this theory fully and completely. The Israelis have the right to expand their borders over Jordan river, as Jabotinsky said."

And a Nazi would fully and completely agree with the theory that the Germans have the right to expand their borders to the East, as Hitler said. By the way, Jabotinsky loved Fascism and most streets and places of Israel are named after him.

Posted by pankajdorcas on July 13, 2009:
"I fully support the greater Israel as It is what the Bible talks about."

Just like Milosevic had the right to expand his Serbian presence over the former Yugoslavia? You people are the reason wars are started!

So does the "Romanian Jew" have any suggestions as to what will happen to the Arabs living in the region should her brethren realize this goal?

let me guess, ethnic cleansing? Not for me sweety! I will defend my territory to the death!

Oh, yea and expansionism is soooo last century! And the Bible does NOT talk about a greater Israel, it talks about Abraham and the promise God gave to his descendants, including Ishmael. Stop co-opting a holy book to justify your sinister political aims!

Not too surprising, but the map is a little small. The last map I seen was claiming land from the Nile in Egypt all the way to the Euphrates in Iraq. They plan to create this "Greater Israel" but they fail to learn the lessons from Milosevic's "Greater Serbia". He tried it, failed, started a massive civil war that almost became regional, only to be bombed into oblivion, then was convicted of war crimes, jailed, sentenced, and died before he could watch his country disintegrate the rest of the way. The Israelis are on the path of failure, and sadly, on the path to destruction.

Had a talk with one of Charles Schumer's aides the other day... he told me that the death of the civilians in Gaza was their fault. I could not believe what I had heard. Where is the humanity, morality, compassion in these United States?